Dr. Akhilesh Kumar Singh is Associate Professor and Coordinator of School of Materials Science & Technology. Dr. Singh joined School of Materials Science and Technology as Assistant Professor in 2005. He completed his Ph.D. (Materials Science & Technology) in year 2006 and M.Tech. in 2000 in Materials Technology with BHU Gold Medal from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Dr. Singh has received Master in Physics from Banaras Hindu University in 1998.

Awards:
1) Awarded BHU Gold Medal for standing first in M. Tech. Materials Technology
2) Received Best Poster Paper award for the Poster presented in15th Annual General Meeting of Materials Research Society of India held at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi during February, 2004.
3) Received Best Poster Paper award for the Poster presented in17th Annual General Meeting of Materials Research Society of India held at Lucknow University, Lucknow, 2006.
4) Awarded Best poster paper award in the International Conference in Asia of International Union of Materials Research Society (IUMRS-ICA 2013), held at IISc, Bangalore during 16th to 20thDecember, 2014.
5) Awarded “1st Prize for oral presentation in National Seminar on Crystallography (NSC43B) held at Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat during 1st to 3rdSeptember, 2014.Workshop(s)/Conference(s)/TraininngCourse(s) Organized:1) QIP Short term course on “Geometrical and Mathematical Crystallography with Applications to Structural Studies”: Co-convener (Feb. 2016)
2) 45th National Seminar on Crystallography (NSC45): Convener (July 2017)

On the Discovery of two new Monoclinic Phases in the Morphotropic Phase Boundary Region of Pb[(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3]-xPbTiO3 Ceramics; Akhilesh Kumar Singh and Dhananjai Pandey; Ferroelectrics 326,91-99 (2005).